Terrelle Pryor Q&A

Raiders quarterback Terrelle Pryor talked to the local media for the first time since coming off his five-game suspension and joining his team at practice
Here’s a transcription:

Q: Your thoughts on joining team?

Pryor: It’s all a new process for me, really. Trying to get used to the speed and stuff like that and the plays called and just getting used to being with my teammates again.

Q: Feel good to be on the field again, though?

Pryor: Yeah, without a doubt, I get to do the thing that I love and go out there with my teammates and contribute and practice and help as much as I can. And however I can get involved, I’m back at it from that standpoint. I enjoy that kind of thing and I enjoy playing the game that I love so getting back out there is a big blessing.

Q: What did you get accomplished in your five weeks off?

Pryor: Coach wanted me to do the drops the way he wanted, so I got that done. I was training by myself; I had a personal quarterback trainer for five weeks. And I really wanted to get the verbiage down a little more and I’m getting a lot better at it. Pretty much, that’s it, and getting the plays, obviously, just keep studying the plays. So I was getting the plays down and also doing footwork and mechanics-stuff as well. Doing the verbiage and calling the plays out, that was quite different too.

Q: Is it easier for you knowing that Hue Jackson has said you’re a quarterback and not have to worry about any other positions?

Pryor: I mean, I knew what I was going to be. I mean, that’s for people that go around, I guess, thinking that they know what they’re talking about. But it is what it is. I knew what i was going to be. I’m just trying to get it down so if something were to happen, I could help my team continue on the path they’re at.

Q: Jason Campbell said you’re quiet but you speak out at meetings and asked you if you were the new QB consultant. How comfortable are you in speaking out and being part of the team?

Pryor: I’m comfortable. Guys are pretty welcoming here. We have a lot of fun here. As you see, I know you guys are always in the locker room hearing guys always joking and stuff like that, and I’m a very friendly guy so I can get involved with my teammates and have them like me because that’s just the way I am and, I don’t know, I just like to fit in as well as I can and they made it pretty easy for me so, to answer your question, when I’m in there with Jason and Kyle (Boller) and Coach (Al) Saunders, I’m pretty comfortable because I feel like I know what I’m talking about. If I wasn’t very comfortable in talking about what I thought, or knew, I wouldn’t say it. But I feel like I’m confident and comfortable with it to feel like I can just spit it out and say what I feel. And they respect me for that.

Q: What did your conversations with Al Davis these past five weeks mean to you as you were waiting to get back on the field?

Pryor: He pretty much, just with how passionate he was about the game, he just kept on telling me, Just win. And then the last time I talked to him, maybe like two weeks ago, maybe a little longer, maybe two-and-a-half weeks ago, he just said, ‘Wait your turn.’ And he said, ‘Just win, baby.’ He said that quite a few times. So just from talking to him, I just got how passionate and it just re-emphasizes just how passionate he is about football. How passionate you need to be to be successful. I feel like I learned that and I picked that up from him.

Q: You go up to his office, or he call you when you spoke?

Pryor: He would always call me on the phone. I actually never met him in person.

Q: He give you quarterback tips, what you should work on?

Pryor: Nah, pretty much every time I talked to him he told me, ‘Be patient, be patient’ and that he believed in me, obviously I’m here, and also just be passionate about the sport and he just kept on saying, ‘Win.’ He was telling the tricks that you get to win — working hard and things like that and just being a part of the team and he was just pretty much breaking things down to how to win. His phrase, he said that quite a few times, every time I’d get on the phone with him. So that was good to hear. It was cool just to have a guy like that that’s a player’s person like that, an owner like that. It just amazed me.

Sullivan44 Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 12:28 pm
Ed Teach, I just asked you to name one team interested in Campbell other than us. You said you can’t, and went on to say that such information isn’t available to you. I would offer that such information isn’t available because none exists. Nobody wanted Campbell other than us. And if a team had, I’m pretty sure that at least one of the millions of internet sports sites, including sites and blogs that specialize in rumors, would have come across it.

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Sweet jebus, MR should be on suicide watch, Ed just schooled him harder than anyone on this blog has been schooled, wow.
The facial from this burn will not heal, he will be like the proverbial “honey badger” incessantly furious, right up until he blows an embolism, becomes a drooling wreck of a man, and is never heard from again.

MR your blog “personality” status has sure nosed dived more suddenly than any other poster I’ve the pleasure to watch lose all credibility. Not one person posting to this blog gives you any respect, or even take you seriously enough to bother to hold a conversation with you anymore.
That fact that you will log into your alex7 handle and talk to your sullivan44 handle to desperately give yourself some love is beyond pathetic, sorry it just is.
You are an amazingly grotesque example of what lies beyond the monitor.

Suck it!

JB

HairyBush Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 2:28 pm

Patriots promoted CB Sterling Moore from the practice squad.
An undrafted free agent out of SMU, Moore could see action on special teams if he makes his NFL debut
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I’m afraid they beat us on that deal. I’m predicting a bright future for Sterling Moore. I really would have preferred that we had kept him. He going to be a very good CB. He’s one that got away.

edward teach

I can’t take credit for that, Drexl. Thec07 posted it right after I told MR that I didn’t know who was or wasn’t interested in JC when the Redskins decided to trade him.

Our friend either missed it, or chose to ignore it.

Just wanted to make sure he saw it lol.

GoodOle00

254. Niiiiice…

JB

I’m hoping that Curry comes out on this initial assignment as a Raider and really does well. A sack or two would be nice along with stuffing every run attempt. I’d like to see him blowing some runners up. Maybe if Romac can see how it’s done, he might get back to doing what we originally picked him to do – be a dominating MIKE MLB. That means blowing up the competition. We need our LB’s to be all they can be to the Nth degree. We have the possibility of having the biggest, fastest & most devastating LB group in the NFL. They just need to play to their ability – all at the same time.

GoodOle00

255. I like S. Moore too. Must be some kind of knock against him but seems like a real instinctual play making kind of CB

raiderzmaverick

And, Sterling Moore beign promoted to the active roster of NE doesn’t supprise me much. He was a player in the camp and preseason. Stupid that we let him go for this RB that won’t amount to nothing.

GoodOle00

258. Not sure if McClain will play. Not sure starting Curry is a great idea.

Twocents

Two things against Sterling Moore. He does not have “Raider speed” and he had trouble staying healthy in college. I wish him well.

SR Raider

Curry may as well start. Raiders have been playing terrible at LB. Need to shake some things up (and give McClain a rest)

JB

GoodOle00 Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 2:57 pm

258. Not sure if McClain will play. Not sure starting Curry is a great idea.
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Well I think we would all agree that HuJack is not a dummy. He’s also very football knowledgeable. If he says Curry starts at WLB, it means 1 of 2 things: Either Curry is the real deal and he can get it done or QGroves is that bad. I guess it could e somewhere in between too. Curry has the tools if put in a position to play to his strengths. I believe Seattle may have just outsmarted themselves by having a system that’s just too complicated and subject to failure.

All we need Curry to do is see ball, see ball carrier, destroy ball carrier, get ball. That he can do.

Twocents

We have a chance for a perfect Sunday. The weather should be beautiful.
All we need is for the Raiders to dominate both sides of the ball, score a bunch of points and have Curry play like he did in college. Not impossible.

Like the ever astute Jerry McD so aptly pointed out, Oakland has a way of playing down to the competition in recent years and letting down big after a big game.

We’ll see if they can play the same disciplined, fundamentally sound run defense two weeks in a row.

I’d love it if Curry had the game of his life and was the catalyst for a Raider Championship.

lefty12

270-so if a defensive player gets knocked off his feet,he isn’t allowed to make a play on a QB.What a bunch of BS.I guess he has to watch as the QB walks right past him.

Twocents

There is something about this team that is different from years past. We’ve had two good drafts and we have Hue. We are thin in a few places, so injuries could do us in.
Right now we have a good chance to win every week, that is good enough for me.

lefty12

The next time FOX ‘reports’ the news will be the 1st.Fox News is the ultimate oxymoron.

JB

Lefty

I totally agree. Seymour was already on the ground when he stretched out to wrap up Schaub’s legs. The reason contact was made below the knees was that was as high as he could go given he was already laid out. The was simply a bad call an now we have a bad fine based on a bad call. He should appeal this one.

raiderkoolaid

It is a stupid rule, but it was one they put in a few years ago because they were crying because of Brady getting his leg broke and being out for the year. According to the rule, if a defensive player is knocked to the ground, even if they are at the qb’s feet like Seymour was, he is suppose to get back up onto his feet before going after the qb. I agree that it is a stupid rule, but it is the rule. Seymour should have been a little more aware and tried to get his hands under him and try to spring up and the qb’s waste.

Twocents Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 3:20 pm
The only thing that will mar my perfect Sunday is that I will probably drink too much and p*ss the wife off.

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I’m with you Twocents! The more confidence I get in the team, the worse it gets! I get a lol cocky with a lil trouble maker mixed in.

rob_raider

Sullivan44 Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 11:41 am
Pryor is likely our very near future QB, as in this year.
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u show ur total ignorance every time out. the raiders, in the hunt for a playoff spot, and looking good, are going to replace their qb, whose rating, contrary to ur ridiculous rants, is right in the middle of the pack, w/ an unproven rookie? really? this is ur new obsession? get real

J Hill

I can’t tell you how excited I am about seeing our defense tomorrow with Curry added to our LB corps.

Groves was certainly getting better, but let’s be real here, he was a fast DE playing LB. I hope he gets into the DE rotation on passing downs.

I wonder if we’ll see the WLB role changed up a little bit? Groves was in coverage a lot. Is that really what they have in mind for Curry? I hope they blitz the heck outta him fromthe blindside of the QB.

Sooner the better so we can move Branch to FS and get Giordano back on STs. The trio of Huff, Branch, and Mitchell have too much talent between them for Gio to be getting snaps.

jakenoir

how soon we forget. one of my favorite qb’s of all times is jim plunkett. his game wasnt pretty. but he got the job. i agree with the late al davis(r.i.p.) jason campbells game is similar to jp. jc has the right temperment for this relatively young offense.this is the first time in his career, i believe, that he has the same coordinator in back-to-back years going back to his days at auburn. jc will be fine as the season goes. but the focus surely must be on penalties because otherwise the raiders could have at least 4 wins. dont sleep on campbell and dont sleep on the raiders. pryor will be just fine as a raider. dont be surprised if he is in on a few plays against the browns…build a bully!

Guy

Pro FootBall Focus Stats

After a monster game against the Texans, Oakland now have our top 2 graded DTs after 5 weeks in Seymour and Kelly

Groves has allowed 17-24 for 187 3 TDs

Aaron Curry’s pass D: QBs 8-8 on passes his way in ’11; 62-76 for 613 yards and 6 TDs for his career

Raiders tied for 3rd in league with 28 offensive plays of at least 20 yards; #Browns last with only 8

Raiders safeties much better in coverage: passer rating vs. S dropped from 112.7 last year to 63.4 so far in ’11

Jerrymcd Regarding Sterling Moore to Patriots 53-man . . . Pats play much less man-to-man than Raiders. Perhaps that was the issue.
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J Hill

Quite frankly, [Manase] Tonga stepped in and did a tremendous job in the run game. He really played well last week and there’s things you can do a little differently with Tonga in there because of his ability to be a downhill, physical blocker.